Makes browsing YouTube quicker by opening videos in a popup when their thumbnails are clicked. InstantView also helps reduce the amount of YouTube tabs opened at a given time by allowing you to watch videos on the current page without the fear of losing your place.
Features
Popup to quickly view videos, playlists, comments, and descriptions
Mini player (picture in picture)
Visualizations
Many different options to customize look and behavior
If you find any bugs, let me know and I'll fix them as soon as I can :)
* Requires Chrome 64+ *
* Google translate was used for translation. Please email or create a new support issue for any corrections that should be made! *
* If you would like another language added, either create a feature request or email me and I will add it as soon as I can *
PERMISSIONS
Read and change your data on: googleapis.com and youtube.com
googleapis.com: to retrieve information about the video for the popup (title, channel, likes, dislikes, etc..)
youtube.com: so the popup can open on youtube
Storage
Save user preferences
Identity (optional)
Used to subscribe to channels and rate videos
YOUTUBE CONCEPT DESIGN BY: aureliensalomon
https://dribbble.com/aureliensalomon
https://dribbble.com/shots/1338727-Youtube-Redesign
CHANGELOG
v4.5.0
FEATURES
- Added an option to show the video upload date above or below the views
- You can now add keyboard shortcuts for play/pause, next/previous and stop
- Added an option to make the mini player open by default
- Added an option to show the visualizers over the video (overlay)
- Added options to change visualizer opacity, and backdrop color and opacity
- Added a visualizer for the Holidays!
- The last visualizer used is remembered and used by default
FIXES
- Modal no longer gets stuck if esc is pressed while the mini player is being dragged
v4.4.0
- Subscribe to channels and rate videos in the popup!
- Language support
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Vietnamese
- Korean
- German
- Spanish
- Russian
- Italian
- French
- New design with 2 new themes (revised dark theme and Halloween theme)
- Default text size is now greatly reduced. Compact view option is no longer included
- Playlists are now loaded into the popup correctly (button on top left of the video to browse playlist)
- The mini player is now draggable (resets on page refresh), and also has separate buttons for going back to the popup and closing it
- Comments
- Author is now a clickable link to their channel
- Comments from the video uploader are now highlighted (fake channels with the same name are not highlighted)
- A few new options for customizing the look of comments
- Tab title is now changed to the title of the video while the popup is opened
- Visualizations
- Halloween visualizer
- "Cave" visualizer
v4.3.0
- Added a close button on the top right of the mini player
- Redesigned options page
- Added an option for visualizer animation speed
- Should be lowered on monitors with higher refresh rates (120, 144, 165, 240)
- Only affects Iverjo and Plaid
- Fixed problem with video playing while the popup was closed
- If a video starts playing while the popup is closed, the visualizers may stop working. As a workaround, refreshing the page fixes it.
- Fixed videos on youtube.com/feed/music not opening in the popup
- Added a new visualizer: "Dzozef" (dwitter.net/d/2887)